What's striking is less that the federal government is using Bible verses in its promotional videos than that the agency doing the recruiting is Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The videos, set to music, include militaristic images. They show heavily armed agents in tactical gear, weapons drawn, donning masks, looking through night-vision goggles, zip-lining from helicopters, breaking down doors, and conducting nighttime raids.
A building in ruins in Homs, Syria. Photograph: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad/The Guardian Over a few brutal days in March, as sectarian violence and revenge killings tore through parts of Syria, two friends from different communities tried to find a way to survive. Ghaith Abdul-Ahad followed their story and looked more widely about the violence that still stalks Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad.
One pinned post features a highly produced video that starts with a family walking in a field and urges viewers to defend their homeland. Another displays an image of a younger and older man in military garb, designed to look like a first world war-era army recruitment poster. Under it, in big bold capital letters: NO AGE CAP JOIN ICE NOW. The caption: We're taking father/son bonding to a whole new level.